Unit XI Practice Test (Intelligence)

Children are said to have an intellectual disability if they have difficulty adapting to the demands of independent living and have IQ scores below

• 60
• 70
• 80
• 90

Charles Spearman's g refers to

• general intelligence
• grouped intelligence factors
• genetic intelligence
• generated creativity

What would be true of a thermometer that always reads three degrees off?

• It is valid but not reliable
• It is both reliable and valid
• It is neither reliable nor valid
• It is reliable but not valid

In general, males score higher than females on tests of

• Spelling
• Verbal fluency
• emotion detection
• spatial ability

Achievement tests are to aptitude tests as

• verbal performance is to spatial performance
• elementary school skills to secondary school skills
• measurement is to prediction
• reliability is to validity

Howard Gardner found evidence of multiple intelligences in individuals who scored low on intelligence but had an area of exceptional ability--for example, to make complex calculations. These people have

• The Flynn Effect
• Savant Syndrome
• Advanced Mental Age
• Wechsler Syndrome

Which of the following is one of Robert Sternberg's types of intelligence?

• Naturalistic Intelligence
• General Intelligence
• Practical Intelligence
• Kinesthetic Intelligence

The Flynn effect refers to the 

• Superiority of certain racial and ethnic groups on intelligence tests
• Extreme scores that are more common for males than females on math tests
• Predictive ability of intelligence tests
• Gradual improvement in intelligence tests scores over the last several decades

The ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions is called

• interpersonal intelligence
• general intelligence
• practical intelligence
• emotional intelligence

Heritability of intelligence refers to

• the extent to which a person's intelligence is caused by genetics
• the effect of adoption on the intelligence of adopted children
• the amount of group variation in intelligence that can be attributed to genetics
• the extent to which the quality of schools and other environmental factors determine intelligence